Music and Brain Power
By Dan on Sep 15, 2009 with Comments 0
Today I want to talk about the connection between music and brainpower. Some scientists are saying that there is a direct connection between music and memory.
Although music is very important to us from a cultural and emotional appeal, the impact of music is much more influential with respect to our intellectual development while we are growing up.
An experiment was conducted by the University of California in 1993 that showed conclusive evidence of the impact of music on our spatial reasoning. In the experiment students listened to Mozart sonatas and were immediately given a spatial reasoning tests. The tests themselves show conclusively that spatial reasoning scores improved dramatically following the music session.
In another experiment conducted with preschool children drew similar conclusions. The children more organized into four different groups with each group focused on different exercises. One group took keyboard lessons and another group took singing lessons while the last two groups were broken into groups that took computer lessons and no lessons at all.
The results of the experiment him and him and him and himwere dramatic in that elite group that showed a high increase in spatial reasoning was the group that took piano lessons.
It has also been observed that a large proportion of of medical doctors are classically trained musicians. When interviews were conducted with medical doctors, doctors responded by indicating that there is a direct connection between the medical and music field. Both fields require them medical mindset and the ability to intricately focus on details at the same time be able to think in many different directions.
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